Waterlow's

The French tradition, or a grimacing ghost of it, was in Waterlow's "manner," but it had not made its mark on his view of the relations of a young man of spirit with parents and pastors.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

Waterlow's purples and greens, for instance, were far beyond him.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

Waterlow's secret scorn: family feeling was all very well, but to see it triumph as a superstition calling for the blood-sacrifice made him feel he would as soon be a blackamoor on his knees before a fetish.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

Waterlow's charming sitter had known who she was and if she had been frightened.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

He defended certain of Waterlow's purples and greens as he would have defended his own honour, and there was a genius or two, not yet fully acclaimed by the vulgar, in regard to whom he had convictions that belonged almost to the undiscussable part of life.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

According to Gaston's plan she was to come to the Avenue de Villiers to see what the artist had done for Miss Francie; her brother was to have worked upon her in advance by his careful rhapsodies, bearing wholly on the achievement itself, the dazzling example of Waterlow's powers, and not on the young lady, whom he was not to let her know at first that he had so much as seen.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

Mme. de Brecourt raved to Waterlow's face -- she had no opinions behind people's backs -- about his mastery of his craft; she could dispose the floral tributes of homage with a hand of practice all her own.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

Waterlow's compassion was slightly tinged with contempt, for there was being settled above all, it seemed to him, and, alas, in the wrong sense, the question of his poor friend's character.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

Waterlow's studio she found Mme. de Cliche before the great canvas.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879

Probert of being afraid of his sisters, which was an effective way -- and he knew it -- of alluding to the rigidity of the conception of the family among people who had adopted and had even to Waterlow's sense, as the phrase is, improved upon the "Latin" ideal.

The Reverberator Henry James 1879